… Given that the whale shark is the largest extant fish and also a vulnerable species; we hope
that the availability of its complete mitogenome sequence will prove an important resource …

… for the control region in the blacktip shark (Carcharhinus limbatus). We provisionally applied
both rates to whale sharks, with the caution that these three species are tens of millions of …

… By far the largest species of fish, the largest confirmed size of a whale shark is 18.8 m in …
from the Holocephali; however, no elasmobranch species has had a complete nuclear genome …

… We used GLMMs with a Gaussian distribution, and fish species were set as a random
effect. We used the function lmer from the lme4 package (https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/…

… Carcharhinus plumbeus (Arnold 2005) and we have observed them in several other
elasmobranch species, including several sting ray species (authors’ unpubl. data). Stokes & Firkin (…

… fish communities lies in the largest species, such as sharks, bumphead parrots, giant trevally,
and humphead wrasse. Some, such as sharks … , decreases in large reef fish species have …

… Many large pelagic species such as tunas, billfishes and sharks that are targeted directly
or are taken as bycatch in industrial fisheries have experienced substantial declines over the …

… Often countries lump together all shark species or report catches of sharks and batoid fishes
… The basking shark (Cetorhinus maximus) is the second largest fish in the world after the …

… , we present length and weight data for 13 species of large Atlantic sharks collected over a
29-yr … Effects of stomach contents on the weight of the fish were minimal in this study. In many …

… A comparison of 26 shark and 151 bony fish populations found that sharks show twice the
… An increase in these species following declines of large sharks has been documented in …